Firearms Friday: Foning in Firearms for a Fortnight

Yeah, I don’t have a whole lot to cover this week either. I still haven’t gotten to try my new gun (although with any luck I will have by the time you read this) so I can’t talk much about that, and nothing particularly noteworthy has popped up this week that I can devote a whole topic to, so I’ll be doing more firearms links. At least these one’s are actually worth talking about.

better than the last time there were German rifles walking around Paris.

I want to talk quickly about a serious topic for a bit. There have been some high profile cases lately in which police officers have shot suspects under less than justifiable conditions and ended up found not guilty after a trial. The two that most readily spring to mind are Philandro Castile and Terrence Crutcher. My personal opinion is that both of these shooting were not justifiable, and while they may not constitute outright murder I would not hesitate to label these as involuntary manslaughter. The thread tying these two cases together is that both of the victims were either high or at least regular drug users (Crutcher tested positive for PCP while Castile tested positive for THC). A very disturbing trend I have noticed on my gun blogs (which in general run on the conservative side) are that these people somehow deserved their fate because they were drug users and therefore criminals. I get very bent out of shape when I hear people suggest that using drugs somehow justifies being murdered by a police officer because you violated a minor traffic law. It’s particularly maddening when very pro gun people, nearly all of whom carry a concealed handgun everyday, justify Castile’s shooting on the basis of ‘well he’s a drug user then by definition he’s not a legal concealed license holder’. And yes I have heard these actual arguments out of gun owners. It’s really put me off from the usual gun blogs as of late. I don’t have an answer to these problems, but it really sobers you up on the reality of traditional conservatives opening up their views on drug decriminalization.

I agree with your statement about drug enthusiasts vs gun blogs/groups. I don’t let hardly any of my gun buddies know that I partake because of their misconceptions on it. One of my friends, who was in a band at the time, thought his steel player(country music lap guitar) had overdosed on mary jane because he was gone too long on break. Once again it shows that most people will just accept what the Man and the Media feeds them without questioning or researching the truth.

Vhyrus, related to your last paragraph, what would be your opinion of a LTC holder being drunk while carrying a weapon and interacting with the police, and managing to get himself shot? I agree with you that most gun blogs’ members’ brains shut off as soon as the phrase “drugs in his system” gets uttered, but what if the victim is actually intoxicated and armed?

I’m writing this as someone who’s read about both cases, seen the dashcam videos and am reluctantly thinking that both officers were reckless in their conduct. But, at least in the Castille case, the officer was really hung out to dry, by training that teaches that: anyone can kill you at any time, and anyone not immediately complying and showing their hands is reaching for a weapon, and trying to kill you. Not ever a cop, or a soldier, but IMHO, there’s a world of difference between the behavior and reluctance to use force that got Deputy Kyle Dinkeller killed, and the instant freak out that Officer Yanez showed.

I think cops are really set up to fail by the training we give them, and we, J.Q. Public, end up paying the price for that failure.

I think cops are really set up to fail by the training we give them, and we, J.Q. Public, end up paying the price for that failure.

This is the result of so much legislation/so many things being made illegal, and the requirement that it all be enforced. That, and the collective mentality of, “the Government should handle this!”.*

When everything is legally “wrong”, eventually, people are going to counter force with their own. By that point, the “you must be in control of every situation” police mentality practically has to be paired with the “anyone/everyone is a potential threat” mindset.

I’m saying this as someone who was right at home in those gun blogs 10 years ago, parroting the same lines. And, I regret every moment of that wasted time.

If nothing else, a Colion Noir presidential campaign would cause “progressives” to rip off the mask and stomp on it with their racist remarks about why he shouldn’t be president and how he’s “not a real black man”.

I remember when the NRA brought him on as a commentator; the lefties lost their shit. “Oh look! The NRA bought themselves an obedient little negro! He’s an Uncle Tom! He’s just parroting what his white massa Wayne LaPierre tells him to!!” Because in progland, it’s inconceivable that a black man would come up with opinions of his own without being spoon-fed by a politician.

“Millions of dollars from liberal organizations and billionaires like George Soros later, they’re attacking the NRA and taking on extreme leftist issues that have nothing to do with the original purpose of #BlackLivesMatter. So Colion Noir asks them: What are you really fighting for?”

“I’m just elated that justice finally prevailed,” said Groman. “Maybe after all these years he can get his life back. He was a bad kid; he needed to go to jail, but not for 30 years.”

Groman said he believes “the biggest obstacle” to Wershe’s release was Operation Backbone. The 1991 sting caught nearly a dozen Detroit area politicians and Detroit cops through a fake drug shipment operation at Detroit City Airport.

FBI informant gets life in prison after ratting out bad cops and politicians…

Because he was moving a really large amount of crack cocaine. Like pounds of it. Even at 17. Talk about your high achievers.

Large web magazine (The Atavist) article on the guy and his case. Didn’t help that, according to them, his helping ferret out corrupt members of Detroit’s power structure actually meant he stayed in the pen a lot longer. How he’s not dead, I have no idea.

“You may think it is of no importance whether you gender your pets but why would you do such a thing to such an important member of your life? Pets cannot speak for themselves. They cannot tell you that they are being misgendered. It’s important not to make assumptions about what gender your animal is based off of its sex.”

It’s like a safari, only better. “Safari” is the Swahili word for adventure and that’s just what we have in store for you.

We sail up and down the coast of Somalia waiting to get hijacked by pirates. We encourage you to bring your ‘High powered weapons’ along on the cruise. If you don’t have weapons of your own, you can rent them on the boat.

Finally I can return to my Deadliest Game lifestyle without being surrounded by rich weirdos or Predators.

I would bet $1k with any of you, right now, that not only will Mayweather beat McGregor, he’ll embarrass him.

McGregor’s MMA striking stance is next to worthless in a boxing match and even constant training in proper boxing form starting last year until the fight isn’t nearly enough time to learn to effectively cut off the ring, wear the body down with shots, then finally slow the legs and drop the hands of a top tier counter-puncher. And Mayweather, the cunt that he is, is more than top tier, he’s arguably the greatest defensive boxer who’s ever lived.

So, McGregor has some training as a boxer from before his MMA career, and he’s going to be used to taking hard shots to the head and body, but Mayweather has made a career out of letting people punch him until they get tired and then outscoring them. I heard an interview recently on my favorite sports talk show with a writer who put it thus: “Mayweather is a professional boxer, and what I mean by that is he has no ego about this stuff. He’s done this before. He’ll let McGregor trashtalk him and try to bait him, and then he’ll fight a full ten rounds with him, and as long as he wins the rounds on points he’ll be perfectly happy to walk away with all that money.”

MMA is a totally different sport. The career arc is different, and it doesn’t seem to allow Mayweathers to spring up. Defensive MMA fighters don’t really exist in the top tiers. Rope-a-dope fighters, yes, but not defensive fighters looking to outscore.

I forgot about McGregor’s boxing past. Still, both our points still stand.

You’re correct that Mayweather fights without ego and allows overly aggressive fighters to wear themselves out with blows that rarely land cleanly, due to his excellent head movement and footwork, but he’s also excellent at making you miss entirely. Next to taking heavy shots, nothing wears you out faster in the ring than swinging and missing on your power punches. And finally, Mayweather doesn’t exactly have a glass jaw. Unless I’m completely blanking here(just smoked a bowl, happy Friday), he’s never even been knocked down. You don’t go through about fifty pro fights, around twenty or so in title bouts, without being put on your ass unless you’re one tough SOB.

I’d say the closest comparable fighter to him as far as age and style I can think of recently is Benard Hopkins, and he stayed at the top of the sport well into his forties. But he also never really allowed himself to get out of shape between fights.

I think you’re right. I’m not sure the cardio is going to be so much an issue for McGregor, because MMA is very cardio-intensive, but I think the simple inability to put Mayweather on his ass or beat him on points will keep him from winning. Then again, McGregor’s schtick is that he’s a striker, not a grappler, and basically just knows enough ground work to get out of trouble and back to striking range. He’s won a fair number of fights by knocking people right the eff out.

Ultimately, I think this is going to be a better fight than it might at first appear.

If Mayweather loses this, suspect a dive. McGregor would get monkey-stomped by a journeyman boxer in a boxing bout. Mayweather’s only the most technically proficient boxer of our generation. A bit of a little bitch for ducking Pacquiao as long as he did, but an amazing talent.

That said, the trash talking is hilarious. And isn’t entertainment the entire point of sports? “Pay your taxes! Pay your taxes!” LOL.

“Unfortunately, since the ancient Greeks, the male orgasm has been central to our understanding of sex. Pornography and prostitution both flourish in property owning societies (women seen as property along with children and slaves). The male orgasm at any cost has always been an act of coercion, as is pornography and prostitution. Moreover, the advocates of sex robots use prostitution as a reference point for thinking about their possible application. What pornography and prostitution tell us as a society is that it is permissible to view women and children as things/objects to gratify the personal needs of those with more money/power/resources (adult males).”

It’s less ‘the ancient Greeks’ and more ‘since primitive man discovered the correlation between semen and pregnancyfun’, since the whole male orgasm part is kind of relevant for reproductiona heckuva way to start the day.

I just spent two straight days in a car with my wife. By the morning of day two, I realized that I would leave her for a sexbot after daydreaming about replacing her on the trip with a perpetually 26-year-old buxom brunette who wouldn’t keep asking me to hand her the Chapstick out of the glovebox.

I just went through all the hoops to buy a pistol in NJ. Since I already have an NJ FID card, I didn’t have to apply for that again (technically). I had to fill out a mental health thing, agree online to a background check with a $20 credit card fee, and then supply the local state police shop with an application and copies of all kinds of id.

The State Trooper who pretty cool apologetically told me that it would be at least 6 to 8 weeks before I got my handgun purchase permit (which I have 60 days to use).

Leaning towards a CZ P-07 with Beretta Storm Compact in 2nd. (I like DA with a safety because I’m old and that’s what I learned) In NJ you can’t go 15-rounds so higher-capacity guns actually end up with 10-round mags.

I agree Vhyrus, the drug warrior wall is maddening. It’s like listening to prog celebrity whine about capitalism and global warming while riding cross-Atlantic in their private jet. I think progress is getting slowly advancing here though and the hard-core holdouts will get swept up once enough states have gone over, at least for legalization which may advance other things once the sky doesn’t fall.

Virginia is interesting because we have a still have a fiercely protective guns rights electorate despite trending left as a state. I’m hopeful that VA will be able to use that split to push both gun rights and decriminalization fronts without sacrificing one or the other for party politics.

at least for legalization which may advance other things once the sky doesn’t fall.

I think this will be the case as well. With the caveat that the legalization has consistently been hinged on the idea that tax revenues can be collected from the sales, which will probably keep the black markets in place.

I occasionally like to address those people, not on gun blogs as that is not my thing so much, but other conservative sites and people I talk to. I like to point out that the run of the mill conservative is nothing but the other side of the big government coin from a progressive. They are just bickering about what liberties they want their big government to repress. They both want a giant hand of government killing liberty. Some actually think about it when pressed.

You first need them to understand the BoR doesn’t actually grant rights, and that infringement on RKBA would be as unconstitutional without the 2A in the absence of an amendment explicitly granting the power to infringe.

It’s relatively easy to demonstrate by pointing to the necessity of amendments outlawing alcohol and slavery. They’re motivated to see this truth because they care about that particular right.

Then ask them to point to the part of the Constitution stating the things they don’t like can be infringed upon.

At this point people sometimes argue that being gay or similarly “immoral” things harm people other than the person with the right to that thing. You can then point out how they sound exactly like a gun grabber, and they shouldn’t be surprised their rights are under attack when they themselves allow for unprincipled arguments.

The BBC is going to announce who the next Doctor Who will be on Sunday after the Mens’ Wimbledon Final. Half the comments I’ve seen have been “IF IT’S ANOTHER WHITE MALE I’LL NEVER WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN!”. The other half have been “IF IT’S ANYTHING BUT ANOTHER WHITE MALE I’LL NEVER WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN1”. I’ve become even more misandrist.

A few years ago she had like a busty, whiskey-tango Brit chick thing going on. She’s aged out of it, though. To her credit she doesn’t appear to have gotten any plastic surgery, so I’ve got to respect that.

I’m kind of surprised at the French picking the HK416. Why not the G36? Isn’t the 416 a G36 with M4 furniture? Nice for Americans who have been using M16s for 60 years, but no benefit for French soldiers. And if the disassembly is anything like the civilian version – it’s a nightmare.

I would have also guessed they would have stayed with a bullpup like the FN or Steyr.

Had a lot of malfunctions that a piston system would have avoided, huh?

Okay. I mean, the only deserts I shoot in are in Utah and Nevada. But I do have a DI AR-15 with just over 16,000 rounds through it over the past five years, including a 2500+ round stretch with no maintenance at all. It’s had six malfunctions, all ammo related. Maybe an HK416 could do as well, but I doubt it could do better.

I’ve heard that – then seen people try to repeat the conditions of the failure and the gun performs perfectly. Since much of the 416 is just a G36 with a different exterior, why would it be any more reliable?

The G36 is supposed to be not that great on extended round counts. Sagging frames, moving sights, etc… The 416 is, supposedly, better suppressed, and shortened than the run of the mill M4.
Now, if you’re not running full auto with a can and 10 inches or shorter, I’ve no idea if that’s helpful.

No idea why they’re ditching the bullpup. Should be great, given the move to armor and “can I get in and out of a vehicle with it?” questions.

Lots of palaver about 416 vs M4 at several of the AR fan sites. I dunno why not FN M4 with Geissele and Trijicon kit all the things.

In my admittedly limited experience with sub-10″ ARs, that’s one area in which a piston gun might have a performance advantage. Especially if you’re swapping a silencer off and on. That said, I’ve seen plenty of short gas guns that run just fine.

The big problem with bullpups is that, in exchange for the shorter overall package, you get stuck with a longer, non-adjustable length of pull. This makes the rifle easier to carry, but much harder to shoot well. Things really start to suck if you’re shooting indoors or wearing armor.

Colion Noir is a bad motherfucker. My now ex-BIL turned me onto him a few years ago. IMO, he’s what conservatism should become if it’s going to be a relevant factor in American politics again. He’s a young (ish) black man who’s an actual conservative without being anything resembling establishment. And for white people of any political who might have a hard time thinking about black men (or gun owners, or conservatives) outside of stereotypes, he’s an important bridge.

re: Philando Castille and drug use: Couldn’t agree more. It sucks, but there’s a significant portion of the gun-owning community who support their own 2A rights while having no problem with those rights being taken away from people they don’t like or to whom they can’t relate. There’s also a fair number who are part of the “law and order” crowd who just happen to have a blind spot when it comes to guns, since they actually own them and care about that right. These are the same types of people who think that someone arrested for smoking a joint should lose their kids but would raise all hell if someone called CPS on parents who got drunk every night.

Yeah, that’s a good point. He fucks up a lot of stereotypes, but does it in ways that offer something for lots of different people to identify with, which hopefully results in those people thinking, “Wait a minute, maybe there are more people like him than not…”

Based on what I’ve heard from him he’s almost a movement conservative, but with an outlook on racism and race relations that acknowledges that there are issues but isn’t anti-cop or anti-state. I don’t know that he’s a libertarian per se, but he’s probably a fellow-traveller.

This is probably the best overview I have seen to date on l’affair Trump Jr.:

Which theory is harder to believe?

That Trump, who had never run for office before and who was panned as a clown by the Democrats and the media right up until Election Night last November, orchestrated a grand coup d’état with the assistance of the Russians to “hack” an American election, and that it was so well hidden that the Don Junior meeting is the only real evidence unearthed so far of the whole thing…

…Or that the Obama administration and the Democratic Party used their immense power to attempt to ensnare the Trumps in a damaging narrative that would either discredit him and the Republican Party as traitors in the event of a Clinton victory or cripple his administration in “scandal” should he pull an upset?

Who had the means, motive, and experience to pull off the deeds in question? Who had the power to let Veselnitskaya into the country, and what purpose would be served for such permission?

We don’t know the half of this story. But frankly, this business with The Russians is all of a sudden a lot more interesting than it’s been the whole time the media has been flogging it.

I’ve been thinking that the Obama administration didn’t really need to entrap someone from the Trump campaign in order to spy on them. But I forgot that they were snubbed by the FISA court first, so they had to offer some “evidence.”

If timelines are interesting to you, there is this — reportedly, the Obama administration sought permission to electronically monitor Trump Tower in early June, and the FISA court would not grant it. But in October, that warrant was given.

Throw in the fact, it was not the meeting coming to light that made Kushner update his disclosure agreement, but it was his updating his disclosure, that then got leaked that made this a story. I bit that hook at the start of this story because they were not honest about the time line. (I read your comments a few days ago RC and I agree. I couldn’t even tell you every time I have left the country, much less describe all meetings with foreign nationals. I don’t know how they expect people to accurately disclose that.) The whole thing reeks of the DNC hit machine and the media is playing it as would be expected.

The Magniinsky Act, or whatever the hell it is called, which is supposedly what the Russian lawyer brought up in the meeting, was fought tooth and nail by Sec Clinton and the Obama administration for over a year before it was finally passed and Obama had to sign it. They know those people in Russia who opposed it, they worked with those people, they are Clinton Foundation donors. It reeks.

As I mentioned above, we’re not at too much risk here of tornadoes, but it can rain here like anything. I was driving to a friends when there was a downpour – I could only see about 10′ in front of me. Weather.com said it was between 5″-10″ an hour.

I was supposed to go visit my elderly friend today (he just got out of the hospital), but the storms downed so many trees, his whole town was pretty much blocked off from the rest of the area. I was listening to the traffic report, and it was “tree down on westbound Georgetown Pike” and “tree down on westbound Route 7”. Like, those are the only two ways to get into Great Falls!